This year’s Business Leadership Report is a ‘must-have’ for any provider that wants to know what its clients are really thinking when it comes to selling legal services. The report focuses on the growing range of alternative legal services and innovations provided by both traditional firms and new model law entrants. It quizzes clients on their attitudes towards these services, their uptake of them and pinpoints which are head and shoulders above the rest... Read more

An exhaustive analysis of the UK market including every firm in the top 200 ranked, analysed and benchmarked, UK chambers ranked by turnover, revenue per barrister and which international firms are most active in the UK.

A tripartite agreement reached between the owners, the shippers and the receivers provided that demurrage be paid to the owners in the event that the owners were found not liable for cargo contamination by an arbitration tribunal.

The Commercial Court has recently ruled on preliminary issues in a cargo claim. The Court held that the ultimate buyer at the bottom of the chain of contracts had obtained good title to the cargo as a good faith purchaser for value.

The English Commercial Court has confirmed that, when assessing damages for breach of contract, credit must be given for any monetary benefit, whether chosen or not, which a claimant has received, or will receive, as a result of taking reasonable steps to mitigate its loss.

B Atlantic provides a good example of the courts’ approach to construing exclusions (with perhaps surprising outcomes) and in assessing whether a foreign court has acted perversely or by reason of political interference.